The Eric Gatz Blog

This One’s on U.S.

Since November 8th there has been a flood of ink written about what “went wrong”?

The Russians

James “Fucking” Comey!

Gary “Fucking” Johnson!

Main stream media

Hillary stunk

Her campaign stunk

Her party stunk

Social Media

Fake News

Email Servers

Wikileaks

Most of these have merit and should definitely be analyzed further.

But none of them were responsible for the election of Donald Trump.

This one’s on U.S.

Every American, whomever you voted for.

At the individual level, it’s hard to believe that people who voted Trump did so because they lacked enough accurate information about him. That they were somehow duped.

This was an unambiguous vote “for” or “against” Donald Trump. The lines were crystal clear.

As a grateful citizen and beneficiary of the greatest country to ever grace planet Earth, I believe I have a duty to make sure it stays that way.

If prior to the election every one of the 73,648,823 voters who voted “against” stood up to their family, friends and colleagues, vociferously extolling “This is not Ok”, the outcome would have been different.

I most certainly did not do enough.

I take responsibility for the election of Donald J. Trump to be the 45th President of the United States of America.

I take responsibility today. And you can be sure I am taking responsibility throughout the next 4 years.